Thieves!’ Significant that Desdemona is placed in the middle of this list of objects, suggests that she is seen as an possession by both Iago and Brabantio. Although Othello is shown to be an honourable man, he still considers his wife as an object that belongs to him. Homosexuality in Othello: Iago’s love Iago seems to love no one, and talks about sex in a lewd manner however he seems to be obsessed with sexual function perhaps its sex between a man and woman that disgusts him and not sex in general. Iago is constantly arguing that you can control your feelings ‘as out bodies are our gardens’. This implies that he may be suppressing his feelings towards Othello.
Eddie breaks this Code of Honour and his own loyalty in his nature when his wife's cousins come over from Italy to live with Eddie and his family. When one of the cousins, Rodolpho, falls in love with Eddie's niece Catherine, Eddie is furious. He does not approve of this at all, and decides to take drastic action by reporting the cousins to the immigration officers all just to keep Catherine to himself, and this is how he breaks the Code. From the very beginning of the play it is clear that Eddie loves Catherine but it is also slightly hinted that he has more feelings towards Catherine which he shouldn't have so it is obvious from the start that there will be disaster in the play as soon as anything comes between Eddie and Catherine. At the start of the play Eddie is talking to Catherine and it is clear to see how much that Eddie loves Catherine, though we are not aware of the extent of his emotions towards her and we also do not see their tragic potential.
The play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1594 and 1596, and the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, written by William Golding in the 1950s, are both based upon tragic conflict between two sides. Romeo and Juliet shows the family feud between the Capulates and the Montagues and the couples heartbreaking love tail ending in their deaths and Golding’s classic tale of school boys on an island too ends in tragedy and shows the boys blood lust and division upon the island. On the surface, it seems the two are not similar but on a deeper level, their conflict is parallel in many ways. Both authors examine the nature of conflict through methods like pathetic fallacy and the type of conflict through their characters. The
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[1] Strachey's interpretation of Tree's performance was probably influenced by Wilde's exposure as a homosexual himself. [edit] Themes Like many of Wilde's plays the main theme is the secrets of the upper-classes: Lord Illingworth discovering that the young man he has employed as a secretary is in fact his illegitimate son, a situation similar to the central plot of Lady Windermere's Fan. Secrets would also affect the characters of The Importance of Being Earnest. [1] In one scene, Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby (whose unseen husband is called Ernest) share the line "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
He cannot tolerate the fact that his niece falls in love with Rodolpho, which changes him and his character. He tries to show that he is the man of the house, “I want my respect” and tries to mock Rodolpho but fails miserably. His actions lead to his ruination. Moreover, Alfieri, the lawyer, establishes that justice and the law, which are going to be important in the play in his opening speech. .
Leonato is the governor of Messina, the protagonist of this passage, and his purpose in this scene is to portray parental love for his only child, young Hero, who is another innocent victim of Don John’s malicious scheme and has been falsely accused of sleeping with another man a day before her wedding. Don John is the antagonist and the mastermind behind the nasty plan to destroy Hero’s special day, her wedding. He is the bastard brother of Don Pedro, who is the Prince of Aragon. Don Pedro is a very respected character in this play, as he is a soldier and the Prince, so he is looked upon as a very strong and reliable character, so much so that whenever someone has a problem or a dilemma, they always consult Don Pedro. Other characters present in this scene are Antonio, Leonato’s brother, the naïve Hero’s uncle, whose purpose in this scene is to comfort and convince Leonato to stop feeling guilty about the false accusation on Hero and to instead condemn the people who blamed Hero; and Claudio, who is a shy gentleman in love with Hero but falls for Don John’s trick and insults Hero in public on the day of their wedding.
Through her viewpoints, Bartky emphasizes the understanding of epistemic risk as the interpretation of the woman making her male companion the center of everything, and therefore risking the loss of herself as and individual. This all demonstrates how the male role in Sex and the City depicts a true image of the dominance of men in romantic relationships according to Bartky’s “Feeding Egos and Tending Wounds.” In Sex and the City’s episode 54, “Time and Punishment,” the key issue is Carrie’s infidelity to Aiden, her boyfriend, with her ex-boyfriend, Big. The conflict between Carrie and Aiden arises after she receives a message on her answering machine from Big while lying in the bed with Aiden. From that point on Carrie’s relationship with Aiden takes a downward spiral. (Look up quote in book on pg.
Men are more distressed about sexual infidelity because of the adaptive problem of uncertain paternity and the risk of investing resources in a child who is not theirs. So if a man suspects sexual infidelity, it evokes aggression related to sexual jealousy. Women are always certain of the maternity of a child; their adaptive problem is finding a mate who is able and willing to invest resources in her and her children for the long-term. Is a woman suspects that the father of her child is emotionally involved with another woman, there is the possibility he will invest his resources in her which could reduce her children’s survival chances and so evokes emotional jealousy which may result in aggression. Research for this evolutionary explanation for aggression comes from Daly and Wilson who reported that men who had just been left, or believe that they are about to be left, commit a high proportion of murders of their partners, possibly due to the jealousy of potentially losing them to another male.
This unrequited love is painful for him and he feels weighed down by it. However, it could be argued that what Romeo thinks is love is actually lust. He says that Rosaline is “rich in beauty” and often seems to mention her appearance which suggests that his feelings towards her are more sexual than anything else. This idea that women are sexual objects seems to be a view held by many of the male characters in this play. In the first scene Gregory and Sampson discuss raping the women of the Capulet household and taking “their maidenheads” (virginity).